Monday, November 5, 2012

How Not To Define - Or Design - Tomorrow's Army

This is an important critique about the future of our Army.  As we know there is a critical debate ongoing about the direction of our Army and what ground forces must prepare for in the future.  


How Not To Define - Or Design - Tomorrow's Army

A few weeks ago in this space, I argued that the Army's leadership should resist the temptation at a time of increasing budgetary stringency to hang on to every conceivable capability. Instead, like any other organization compelled to live in an economic world, the Army needs to set and enforce priorities.

If a talk Thursday by Army chief of staff Gen. Ray Odierno at Washington's Center of Strategic and International Studies is any guide, that's precisely what the Army remains unwilling to do.

Reporting on the event, AOL Defense's Sydney Freedberg noted that Odierno's "overwhelming emphasis was on reshaping the Army and its personnel to Öto justify itself as a jack of all trades."

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